bread-and-butter

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ˌbread-and-ˈbutter adjectiveadj [only before noun]

1 British EnglishBrEBASIC bread-and-butter questions are very important basic ones 〔问题〕有关生计的，最基本的

bread-and-butter political issues such as jobs and housing

就业和住房等关乎民生的政治问题

2. bread-and-butter work is work that is not very exciting but provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live 〔工作〕赖以养家糊口的，赖以为生的

Examples from the Corpus

bread-and-butter• In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues, the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois, trade-unionist mentality.

From Longman Business Dictionary

bread and butterˌbread and ˈbutter noun [singular]

if something is your bread and butter, it is the thing that gives you your main income

The paper’s bread and butter is reporting local events in a small community.

单词	bread-and-butter
释义	bread-and-butter Word family adjectivebreadednounbread-and-butterbreadbasketbreadberrybread binbreadboardbreadcrumbbreadfruitbreadheadbreadnutbreadroombreadrootbreadstickbreadstuffbreadwinnerbread ˌbread-and-ˈbutter adjectiveadj [only before noun] 1 British EnglishBrEBASIC bread-and-butter questions are very important basic ones 〔问题〕有关生计的，最基本的 bread-and-butter political issues such as jobs and housing 就业和住房等关乎民生的政治问题 2. bread-and-butter work is work that is not very exciting but provides you with most of the money that you need in order to live 〔工作〕赖以养家糊口的，赖以为生的 Examples from the Corpus bread-and-butter• In the late nineties when workers showed excessive interest in bread-and-butter issues, the revolutionaries denounced their petty-bourgeois, trade-unionist mentality. From Longman Business Dictionary bread and butterˌbread and ˈbutter noun [singular] if something is your bread and butter, it is the thing that gives you your main income The paper’s bread and butter is reporting local events in a small community.
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